Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Oodgeroo Noonuccal was an Australia poet, political activist, artist, and also a campaigner for Aboriginal rights, she has written a poem named we are going. We are going portrays Ms. Noonuccals sadness as she is talking about the loss of her family and own land, also she expresses her emotions in her poem using poetic devices such as imagery and metaphors and personification to show us the consequences that it held on the aboriginals. She portrayed to us that she and her tribe had a special attachment to their land and felt with the westerns invading their country they would not have that unique connection that they had with the animals and the land and quote “the eagle is gone, the emu and the kangaroo are gone from this place” the animals…

Year 12 Literature: Poem Analysis: Oodgeroo Noonuccal Oodgeroo Noonuccal is an Australian poet and political activist who is famously known for her strong views that translated from her roles in activism to her poetry. The poetry of Oodgeroo Noonuccal has been a huge significance in the recognition of the culture of the indigenous community as well as the suffering that they were subjected though. In her writing, Noonuccal uses striking descriptions of the land and the cultural understandings…

Oodgeroo Noonuccal, from South-East Queensland was an Indigenous Australian poet. Her works include many poems and books, while she is best known for her book Stradbroke Dreamtime. The Dawn is at Hand is one of many poems completed by Oodgeroo. This poem is about a better future for all Indigenous Australians and letting go of their past. The theme of this poem is equality and freedom. This is shown in the poem that in the future Indigenous Australians will not be segregated anymore, while…

We are Going By: Oodgeroo Noonuccal Oodgeroo Noonuccal is a well-known poet that wrote poems that relates to the Aborigines’ dispossession. She increasingly got engaged in political activities that was for the support of the Aborigines and social justice during 1960. With this, she was able to contribute largely in the national organisation, the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) who had a massive role that is for the voting rights in the…

The poem “Then and Now” written by Indigenous activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal explores themes of cultural loss and colonisation whilst also expressing her own values, attitudes and beliefs. Noonuccal explores her value of her tribe through creating imagery. The author also expresses her attitudes and beliefs on cultural loss and cultural discrimination through repletion and metaphor. There is a nostalgic and melancholy tone to the poem showing the authors resent towards white society. The poem…

Oodgeroo Noonuccal also known as Kath Walker, was born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska on the 3rd of November 1920 and was born of the Noonuccal people on their traditional lands of Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) in Queensland. her father influenced her to be a poet, activist and public speaker she was known more for her poetry and her work strongly influenced Australian literature as her father as well was employed by the Queensland government as part of a poorly-paid Aboriginal workforce; his…

previously held beliefs. They are all encompassing ranging from the spiritual to the physical. They can be sudden and unexpected or be the result of deliberate planning. Often discoveries cause a person to reconsider their beliefs. The prose fiction novel Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch and the poem we are going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal share this concept. In “Swallow the Air” the protagonist May Gibson travels across Australia in an attempt to rediscover her culture and to discover her place…

individuals affected by it. Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s ‘Son of Mine’ reveals through the voice of an Indigenous mother talking to her son that prejudice and cultural destruction was an issue that all aboriginals had to face. The subjective mood conveyed in the rhetorical question, “What can I tell…

unfairly, or even worse getting murdered. Imagine this happening to you, all because of the colour of your skin. As sad as it is, this was all a reality for the Aboriginals when the European settled in Australia. The Aboriginals strived for the day where they could be treated like white people. This is the topic of the poem “Song of Hope” by Kath Walker, or, Oodgeroo. The poem was published in the 1960’s. It was set in Australia around the time it was published, as Aboriginals were…

individuals a sense of identity, security and partnership, and that these idea of belonging have played a significant role in Australian lives for years? From Polish migrants in the 1950s to aborigines over the last hundred years, millions of poets have chosen this concept as a foundation to their work. In fact, one of these poets is a very important aboriginal voice; Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Her plain-speaking style, and her strong element of compassion is the reason I chose to discuss her poem…